We are delighted to invite you on Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 2:30 p.m. for a conference led by Kewin Peche-Quilichini, director of the L’Alta Rocca museum (Levie, South Corsica) on fortified settlements of the Iron Age.

In Corsica, fortified settlements are almost always perceived as an essential component of Bronze Age or Middle Age settlements. However, during the second Iron Age (400/100 BC), fortified settlements - castelli - were deployed near the main traffic routes and around the lower valleys. To this day, these sites appear to be confined to the northern half of the island, as a response to the political and economic difficulties linked to Greek, Punic and Roman imperialist or commercial ambitions. Kewin Peche-Quilichini, doctor in Mediterranean protohistoric archaeology, presents the fruit of his thematic surveys and excavations on these hilltop villages. Particular attention will be paid to the habitat of I Palazzi, in Casinca, which constitutes to date the best documented example and which will subsequently experience a new development in the wake of the Roman colony of Mariana.

For more information, contact the museum at 04 20 19 02 40 or by email at musee@mariana-lucciana.fr. We look forward to seeing many of you to share this moment of knowledge and passion together.